They are pulling a bethesda it seems.
Is that only about this particular nVidia's move? Huge number of publishers already have pulled the "Bethesda", and have put their entire game making on the "rails" of such arrogant approach, for many years already. They give the players the barely functionaly buggy barebones, and "let" modders to make entire QA, and QoS stuff, "for free", and later grab all the merrits to themselves. Or, even sell the mods as own paid DLCs.
Judging by the train wreck that is Blackwell, I'm going to say Nvidia just doesn't care about the gaming market right now more than it being challenging to fix.
nV is doing it now because the cost of maintaining it is larger than the benefit of keeping it in-house. No more, no less and certainly no malice beyond the required corporate greed.
Exactly! This seems like nVidia has completely turned towards Enterprise segment, and this was just the farewell gesture from them. And of course the main reason, as described above- money. nVidia simply cuts costs for "unsuported" hardware/software. As they indeed don't care anymore, since won't be able to make any profit from the HW and closed "eco"system. There's simply no point to keep the support for it.
The only issue here, is that nVidia might still hypocritically sell the AI/Enterprise GPU under the disguise of gaming SKUs.
Dunno. Me thinks this would be more helpful for recent and future products than past ones.
It's not a technical issue for it to be trivial or not, it's a financial one, and they obviously gauged it to be of no value solve.
What they are offloading to the others seems to be QA of future releases. Although this probably targets studios and engine devs more than it does modders.
Yeah, they've pretty much drew the line, for the PhysX 64bit, to be the only viable, for "future" games developed, or if at all. Since the abandoning the proprietary tech, after keeping it inside their sick walled garden for almost one and a half decade, doesn't show as a future-proof move.
Also, this brings unnessesary burden and overheads on the developers, to support 32 bit API, if there is any yet. So it's seems like it's asking for another unified solution, akin to what OpenAL, and OpenSpy have become. Maybe even some open "universal" transition layer, rather than making it individually by each studio.
However, the game devs have already baited to the "new" and "fancier" toys, such as AI, and RT, frame gen, horrible TAA, which should have give them a leg up on the development.
But who knows, maybe as nVidia have gave up, the Radeons, even older ones, might one day, receive the "PhysX treatment". One can only dream...
Only about a decade late. But I wonder if someone out there can make physx work on Blackwell. If they manage to then Nvidia should be ashamed of themselves.
Blackwell gaming cards, might as well end up just a symbolic move, and a one-off limited event. Considering the non-existant stock, and complete silence of the amount sold.
The first truly positive Nvidia-related news in recent years. I hope developers will make good use of it. I'm also wondering if this will improve things on Linux and/or maybe PhysX on AMD?
It's only positive, because nVidia have dropped it out of their scope of interests. But you can wait, and there may be solution... maybe in another decade
As usual for any company, after it dropped the hostage milking of their property. They kept the predatory grip on PhysX, for as long as it was giving them a brand's boast boost (even Intel let the Havok to be CPU neutral). Once it deemed less atractive than AI this and AI that, it was dumped. This isn't a surprise, since nVidia has made first steps making PhysX open source back in 2018.
